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King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2x Consultant in Anaesthetics
Site: King’s College Hospital PRUH & South Sites
Full-time 10 PAs
Permanent

 

This is a Substantive Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing perioperative care for patients at the Princess Royal University Hospital and the south sites. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department including the teaching and training of junior staff. The post will be based at PRUH, Orpington and Sidcup sites and is a typical 10 PA job plan with 6 fixed theatre sessions per week, with the session days being fixed, working in various surgical specialties throughout the sites.

 

Main duties of the job

There is a commitment to provide night time on-calls, possibly combined with routine job planned work on Saturdays and Sundays (day time trauma lists 8 am to 6 pm) as part of the total job planned PAs.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trusts sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:

·         The provision of a first class clinical service

·         Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

·         Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

·         Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

 

·         Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans.

 

·         Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the care group or the Trust.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.